by Communications Office | Feb 2, 2018 | NEWS, Our Sisters
By Charlotte Raftery, SC My current ministry is being a companion to the Sisters at the Convent of Mount Saint Vincent. Doing this in a quiet, low key, non-threatening way really helps them to feel more free and energized to engage in their ministry of prayer and...
by Communications Office | Jan 29, 2018 | NEWS, Our Sisters
By Lorraine Cooper, SC Sr. Marie Paula, at 96, greatly embodies the spirit of Mother Seton, the educator. Without planning it, love for writing seemed to be an attraction for her throughout her life. Creative expression was seeded in her heart by a grade-school...
by Communications Office | Nov 30, 2017 | NEWS, Our Sisters
By Lorraine Cooper, SC Sister Alberta Carey wanted to share, first and foremost, how grateful she is for God’s goodness and care to her throughout her fifty-four years as a religious, forty-two of them as a Sister of Charity. The experience of her mother’s love and...
by Communications Office | Nov 2, 2017 | NEWS, Our Sisters
By Lorraine Cooper, SC In 2007 Sr. Joan Anderson became one of our retirees at the Convent of Mount Saint Vincent. In spite of rheumatoid arthritis, she can be seen managing convent finances or acting as receptionist at the front desk with her crochet hook or...
by Director of Communications | Sep 26, 2017 | NEWS, Our Sisters
By Lorraine Cooper, SC Sister Genevieve’s first assigned ministry as a Sister of Charity was to be a first-grade teacher at St. Margaret of Crotona School in the Bronx. Being an early-childhood teacher was to be her joy and privilege for the next fifty-five years. She...
by Director of Communications | Jan 8, 2015 | NEWS, Our Sisters, Year of Consecrated Life
For this week’s Year of Consecrated Life Sister of Charity, we invite you to visit SisterStory.org, where our Sister Andrea Dixon, SC, was featured last year during National Catholic Sisters Week. Click on the link below to read about our dynamic Sister Andrea....